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	<title>Liberty Lady</title>
	
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	<description>a B-17 bomber crew, the OSS, and a wartime love story</description>
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		<title>President Roosevelt’s Favorite Dish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written about one of my favorite World War II veterans, Lt. Col. Monroe F. &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Stamps. Buddy also served our country in Korea and on his very last day of duty barely made it out alive. Buddy grew up in Manchester, GA, a stone&#8217;s throw from President Roosevelt&#8217;s Little White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ulf Gahm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January of 2011 I was excited to receive an email from a gentleman who wrote to me “from the sunny island of Gotland, Sweden.” Gotland!?! That’s where my Dad’s B-17 crash landed in 1944! I had been writing about my Dad’s B-17 missions since the beginning of 2009 &#8230; I&#8217;ve  heard about the Swedish island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Miller and the Bedford Corn Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[306th Bomb Group]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Corn Exchange??”  It’s a British term that describes the buildings where farmers traded their grains. What I read in Wikipedia is that the name “corn” referred to all cereal grains. This type of trade was common up until the 19th century. The Bedford Corn Exchange was constructed in 1874 and was designed to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Over Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[306th Bomb Group]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russell A. Strong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(1982) First Over Germany: A History of the 306th Bombardment Group by Russell A. Strong is the history of the 306th Bomb Group.]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis Belle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B-17]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Baker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend the B-17 Memphis Belle came to town! This is not the original Memphis Belle, the B-17 piloted by Robert K. Morgan that was celebrated so highly in 1943 for finishing 25 missions. That plane is grounded and being lovingly restored in Dayton, Ohio. Rather, this is the B-17 that was used in the 1990 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strandvägen 7 ~ Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Legation in Stockholm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written about Strandvägen 7 several times. This is the complex on the famed &#8220;Beach Road&#8221; in Stockholm where the American Legation was located.  In the back corner of the Legation offices were the top secret desks of OSS Stockholm, the Office of Strategic Services.  Just across the courtyard from 7a, the Legation, was the German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VKF Ball Bearing Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 6, 1944, the day of the first large-scale daylight bombing of Berlin, the assigned target for the Liberty Lady B-17 of the 306th BG was the VKF Ball Bearing Works at Erkner, an eastern suburb of Berlin, about seven miles from the city center. VKF stands for (in German)  Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotell Rättviksgården</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hotell Rättviksgården is another little hotel where the American internees in Rättvik were housed during 1944. ]]></description>
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		<title>Turisthemmet Rättvik</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internees in Sweden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another small hotel that hosted the American Internees during World War II Sweden was the Turisthemmet (Tourist Home) in Rättvik. According to Curt Jacobsson’s 2003 article in the Svensk Flyghistorisk Tidskrift some members of the Liberty Lady crew stayed there while others (the officers for sure) stayed at the Hotell Lerdalshöjden. This property, located on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turisthotellet Rättvik</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World War II Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rättvik]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, my attention returns to to Sweden, specifically more on Rättvik hotels. First of all I want to thank the historians who have been sending me information.  Karen Cline did a series of newsletters on the internees during the late 90’s.  You can download them from our Facebook Group, “American Internees in WWII Sweden.”  Helena [...]]]></description>
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